Symbolist objects : materiality and subjectivity at the fin de siècle /

Symbolist objects : materiality and subjectivity at the fin de siècle / Materiality and subjectivity at the fin de siècle edited by Claire I R O'Mahony. - High Wycombe, England : Rivendale Press, 2009. - 433 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-427).

Introduction : subjective objects / Claire I.R. O'Mahony -- Misunderstood symbolism : rereading the subjective objects of Montesquiou's first Maison d'un artiste / Elizabeth Emery -- Objects and interiors : Oscar Wilde / Richard W. Hayes -- Potential images in Mallarmé's Un coup de dés / Katherine Shingler -- The fin-de-siècle book as art object : John Gray, poet / Philip Healy -- The quest for verbal/visual cosmos in William Morris's calligraphy and typography / Paola Spinozzi -- Merde and diamonds : Alfred Jarry's Les minutes de sable memorial and César-Antechrist / Jill Fell -- The archaeology of dreams : Fernand Khnopff, Henri Cros, and the mask / Rachel Sloan -- Talisman for the Symbolist movement : Puvis de Chavannes' Hope / Erika Schneider -- A world of things in emergence and growth : René Binet's Porte monumentale at the 1900 Paris Exposition / Robert Proctor -- Destruction and the gift / Geneviève Sicotte -- The 'artistiques bijoux d'acier' in The Marquise de Sade : shifts of power / Sophie Pelletier -- René Lalique and the subjectification of the jewel / Claire I.R. O'Mahony -- Baudelaire, Mallarmé and the Symbolist aesthetics of Robert Motherwell / William M. Perthes -- Insects, design and illusion : symbolism and subjectivity / Marjan Groot.

9781904201151 1904201156

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Symbolism (Literary movement)
French literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Symbolism (Art movement)
Collectors and collecting in literature.
Subjectivity in literature.
Subjectivity.

PQ295.S9 / S787 2009

709.0347